U+5E42 "幂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
幂
U+5E42 "幂" CJK Unified Ideograph-# is a Chinese and Japanese kanji character that primarily means "power" or "exponent" in mathematics, often denoting the operation of raising a number to a given power, as well as conveying the broader sense of "cover" or "cloth" in classical contexts. It is composed of the radical "冖" (a covering or roof) and other components, reflecting its historical usage to describe a cloth or covering that conceals something, later abstracted to the mathematical concept of an operation that multiplies a number by itself a specified number of times. This character is commonly used in modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean writing systems in technical and educational materials related to algebra and arithmetic.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+5E42 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| Block | CJK Unified Ideographs |
| General Category | Other Letter |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Left To Right |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 幂 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 幂 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE5 0xB9 0x82 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x5E42 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00005E42 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u5e42 |
Unicode Properties
Unihan Properties
| kCCCII | 222739 |
| kCNS1986 | E-3979 |
| kCNS1992 | 3-3979 |
| kCangjie | BAKB |
| kCantonese | mik6 |
| kCihaiT | 167.101 |
| kDefinition | cover-cloth, cover with cloth |
| kEACC | 222739 |
| kFourCornerCode | 3722 |
| kGB0 | 3561 |
| kGB1 | 3561 |
| kHanYu | 10305.060 |
| kIICore | AG |
| kIRGHanyuDaZidian | 10305.060 |
| kIRGKangXi | 0334.100 |
| kIRG_GSource | G0-435D |
| kIRG_HSource | H-8D69 |
| kIRG_JSource | JMJ-010875 |
| kIRG_KPSource | KP1-4098 |
| kIRG_KSource | K2-3038 |
| kIRG_TSource | T3-3979 |
| kJapanese | ベキ ミャク おおう |
| kTGH | 2013:5311 |
| kJapaneseKun | OOU OOINUNO |
| kJapaneseOn | BEKI MYAKU |
| kKangXi | 0334.100 |
| kMainlandTelegraph | 0389 |
| kMandarin | mì |
| kMeyerWempe | 1820d |
| kMojiJoho | MJ010875 MJ010874:E0100 MJ010875:E0101 |
| kMorohashi | 01596:E0100 |
| kPhonetic | 921A |
| kRSUnicode | 50.9 14.10 |
| kSemanticVariant | U+9F0F<kMeyerWempe |
| kSimplifiedVariant | "幂" U+5E42 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kSMSZD2003Index | 51.17 195.13 |
| kTGHZ2013 | 250.190:mì |
| kTotalStrokes | 12 |
| kTraditionalVariant | "冪" U+51AA CJK Unified Ideograph-# "幂" U+5E42 CJK Unified Ideograph-# |
| kUnihanCore2020 | GH |
| kXHC1983 | 0784.010:mì |